Heiner Merz

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Heiner Merz (born February 24, 1963 in Waiblingen ) is a German politician . For the Afd , he became a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg in May 2016 . From July 7, 2016 until the re-entry of the AfD MPs who had temporarily resigned on October 11, 2016, he was parliamentary group leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the state parliament. In 2020 he left the AfD.

job

Merz first trained as a wholesale and foreign trade merchant. He then obtained his Abitur while working on the second educational path , after which he studied first surveying and later computer science . He completed his studies at the University of Stuttgart in September 1994 as a computer scientist and then worked for a few years in the IT industry, a. a. as managing director of a German branch in Dublin . In 1999 he returned to Stuttgart and worked at Bosch . In 2013 he was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. received his doctorate and worked as a lecturer in business administration until he moved into the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg .

politics

Merz is a member of the Alternative for Germany. Since 2014 he has been an AfD representative in the Fellbach municipal council . In the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2016, he was elected to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg with 17.2 percent of the votes in the constituency of Heidenheim (constituency 24). On July 7, 2016, Merz was elected as the successor to Jörg Meuthen, who had resigned in the course of the dispute over Wolfgang Gedeon, as chairman of the decimated AfD group. At the suggestion of his parliamentary group, Merz was appointed a member of the 16th Federal Assembly by the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg and took part in the election of the Federal President on February 12, 2017 . In the by-election of the vice-president of the state parliament in April 2018, the AfD parliamentary group nominated Merz for the vacant office. After the CDU candidate did not receive sufficient support from the green-black coalition in the first ballot, Merz also ran in the second ballot and was able to unite 23 votes. As his group only consisted of 20 members at the time, he had received at least three votes from other groups in the secret ballot. He is spokesman for his group on European, media and fire-fighting policy. As such, he called for funds for the fire brigades in Baden-Württemberg to be increased in order to end an investment backlog previously disputed by the Ministry of the Interior and later admitted. He also spoke out in favor of a pension for members of the volunteer fire brigades, financed from state funds, the amount of which should be based on the years of service. Merz has been a member of MENSCHEN FÜR TIERRECHTE - Tierversuchsgegner Baden-Württemberg e. V. and has repeatedly addressed animal welfare in his role as a member of parliament.

At the end of 2018, Merz replied to an email from the Baden-Wuerttemberg authorities regarding the occupation of environmental advisory councils, in which the consideration of the women's quota was given with “Quotas are only useful to unqualified, stupid, lazy, ugly and disgusting women; the good, hard-working and suitably qualified found and find their way on their own. "His statement triggered the petition" Words create values ​​", which prompted the University of Stuttgart, Alma Mater von Merz, to respond as follows on December 21, 2018:" Meanwhile the University of Stuttgart has informed Dr. Merz that his statements are likely to damage the university's international reputation as a university that values ​​equal opportunities and diversity. The university management has therefore decided, in agreement with the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and the Business Administration Institute, The name of Dr. Merz is no longer listed on the homepage of the University of Stuttgart among the alumni and alumnae. "

In the July 2020 list of the Heidenheim AfD constituency candidates for the 2020 state elections, he no longer stood and shortly afterwards declared his departure from the parliamentary group and party.

Committee work

Memberships

Private

Merz is married.

criticism

The managing director of an online mail order business has filed a complaint against the AfD member of the state parliament Heiner Merz. The politician had emailed 25,000 stolen customer data from mail order to his group colleagues. The state parliament administration did not want to comment on the process: "The data protection regulation of the state parliament is not applicable to this case," said state parliament spokeswoman Gabriele Renz. Dr. Walter Krämer on behalf of the State Commissioner for Data Protection: The members of parliament enjoy immunity for their parliamentary work. In terms of content, however, he found Heiner Merz's email problematic: both the acquisition of the data and the distribution to addresses outside of Parliament were illegal. The former Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar cannot understand this point of view and communicated this to the State Data Protection Commissioner of Baden-Württemberg, who promised to check what he could do.

The investigation against Merz was discontinued because this data, which the mail order company 'Impact Punk Mailorder' 'had previously been stolen by a right-wing hacker scene and published. According to the public prosecutor's office, those affected are free to take legal action against Merz.

The same list with the names and addresses of democratic politicians as well as artists and activists was discovered in 2017 by the right-wing extremist group " Nordkreuz " of the Hannibal network . The list should be a "death list". The Saxon terrorist organization “ Revolution Chemnitz ” also had access to it. While Merz distributes addresses of supposedly politically dissenting people and encourages them to make them public, he is extremely concerned about protecting his own privacy: since he left Fellbach, where he was also a member of the municipal council, at the end of 2016, he has not shared his new place of residence With. He was afraid of attacks by political opponents, so his reasoning at the time.

According to media reports, Merz employs an employee who previously had contacts with the NPD and who allegedly congratulated right- wing terrorist Anders Breivik under a false Facebook profile .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Stuttgart, Chair of General Business Administration and Information Systems II ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bwi.uni-stuttgart.de
  2. ↑ Heidenheimer Zeitung "AfD is against the education plan and for more police"
  3. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung: "These are the 23 MPs of the AfD"
  4. ↑ Selected applicants , State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg , accessed on March 14, 2016.
  5. ^ AfD-Rest group with a new board , SWR , accessed on July 7, 2016.
  6. ↑ State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg: Plenary Protocol 16/22. In: Minutes of the plenary. State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, December 21, 2016, accessed on November 9, 2018 .
  7. ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Heidenheim: AfD fails with Heiner Merz as a candidate . In: swp.de . April 25, 2018 ( swp.de [accessed November 9, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Landtag Baden Württemberg - Merz. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
  9. ↑ State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg: Printed matter 16/2734. State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, November 2, 2017, accessed on November 9, 2018 .
  10. ↑ WORLD: Interior Minister admits investment backlog at fire brigades . In: THE WORLD . December 19, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed November 9, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Heiner Merz: Should there be pension points for voluntary work with the volunteer fire brigade? Ed .: State Gazette for Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart February 19, 2018.
  12. ↑ Landtag Baden Württemberg - Merz. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
  13. ↑ State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg: Printed matter 16/4107. State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, May 17, 2018, accessed on November 12, 2018 .
  14. ↑ State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg: Printed matter 16/3899. State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, April 16, 2018, accessed on November 12, 2018 .
  15. ↑ AfD deputy because of misogynistic statements in the criticism , Welt, December 4, 2018
  16. ↑ Words create value
  17. ↑ Dr. Hans-Herwig Geyer Head of University Communications and Press Officer at the University of Stuttgart
  18. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: MP Heiner Merz: Uni Stuttgart bans AfD politicians from their homepage. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
  19. ↑ AfD man removed from university page because of statement on women's quotas. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
  20. ↑ WORLD: AfD man because of statement of women's quotas removed from the university . In: THE WORLD . December 27, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed December 27, 2018]).
  21. ↑ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: AfD man removed from university page because of statements on women's quotas - Political News. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
  22. ↑ https://www.hz.de/meinort/heidenheim/der-abteilunge-dr.-heiner-merz-tritt-nicht-mehr-fuer-heidenheim-an-afd-kreisrat-jens-schneider-wird-landtagskandidat- 49924784.html
  23. ↑ https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.afd-fraktion-schrumpft-weiter-abteilunger-heiner-merz-erklaert-austritt.cf88e933-e229-44d8-beb7-3d69e62ee85b.html
  24. ^ LFK - Members of the Media Council , accessed on March 2, 2019
  25. ↑ Members of the Board of Trustees , accessed on March 2, 2019
  26. ^ House of History Baden-Württemberg - Scientific Advisory Board on hdgbw.de
  27. ^ Christian Kreutzer: Mail order shows AfD politician Merz. SWR , March 16, 2018, accessed June 30, 2018 .
  28. ^ Criminal charges against AfD MP Merz. Schwäbische Zeitung (Alb-Donau), March 16, 2018, accessed on June 30, 2018 .
  29. ↑ Südwestpresse [1] v. March 14, 2018, accessed July 14, 2019
  30. ↑ Daily mirror v. July 13, 2019: '' E-Mail calling for denunciation '' [2]
  31. ↑ Silja Kummer: Address list email: No investigations against AfD MP Heiner Merz. Heidenheimer Zeitung, accessed on July 18, 2018 .
  32. ↑ rbb24 [3]
  33. ↑ Daily mirror v. July 13, 2019: E-Mail calling for denunciation [4]
  34. ↑ swp v. March 14, 2018 [5] accessed on July 14, 2019
  35. ↑ http://www.swp.de/heidenheim/lokales/heidenheim/nazi-vorwuerfe-gegen-mitarbeiter-von-heiner-merz-14418786.html
  36. ↑ http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/suedwestumschau/afd-fraktion-im-landtag_-mitarbeiter-frueher-bei-der-npd-aktiv-14428002.html
personal data
SURNAME Merz, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (AfD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century